i agree that the original GP's would make it worse, however if designed right, (ie the right length for the spectrum etc) it would not be hard to design an antenna which replaces the included one. The catch is to have the right length for the spectrum being used.
i think the GP is referring to RENTERS insurance which is a good idea if you have valuables in your home, however most policy's wont cover anything that wasn't in your home (IE stolen out of your car). You may want to check your policy though as it may be covered if the car was parked on the rental property or it may cover property in the car. OTOH Car insurance may cover it if you have full coverage, but most poor college students cant afford that anyway.
wiki:
Burglary:
Burglary (also called breaking and entering[1] and sometimes housebreaking)[2] is a crime, the essence of which is entry into a building for the purposes of committing an offence. Usually that offence will be theft, but most jurisdictions specify others which fall within the ambit of burglary. To commit a burglary is to burgle (in British English) or burglarize (in American English).[3]
wordnetweb.princeton.edu (incase you dont trust a wiki) :
entering a building unlawfully with intent to commit a felony or to steal valuable property.
none of these mention anything "by cover of night"
http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=burglarize
proof that burglarized is a word (at least according to the university of Princeton) (also wiki lists it as a alternitive to Burglary.
and i dont see how posting this ip would help his situation any (most likely it would just make it worse, people contacting the thief, or the thief taking measures to obscure the correct IP), your claim that he is "making shit up" is groundless and without merit.
My Point: YOU sir, are a TROLL.
it seems like the issue is its shorting the antenna out (causing attenuation) rather than passing the signal through the case, most likely, even if a longer antenna was rigged up to the phone via this method, it would not improve reception at all... you would need to actually access the part of the PCB where the antenna solders on (or access part of the antenna directly (without grounding it out against the case or other components. Nice thought though...:D
just so you know TFA doesn't say they deleted ALL the threads, just lists several threads that they have deleted. This could well be a case of exactly what you say "If you're worried about too many threads have one main one. If you're worried about flames eliminate those posts." consolidating threads and eliminating mostly flame wars.
So, if a free market doesn't function unless people have access to all information available then you think "insider trading" is legal? And if you think its wrong for them to censor their site then you wouldn't have a problem with me coming by your house and spray painting your slashdot id on the side of it? or slapping a bumper sticker on your car proclaiming how much it pollutes the atmosphere. I don't like Apple, of their products, i don't even own a IPod, but it IS their server, they are not going to other discussion boards and trying to bury or erase any defamatory remarks. And since the threads in questions i cant verify it, but im willing to say that the most likely reason the threads were removed is because of vulgar speech and/or it had become nothing more than a flame war. Yes this is censorship, its the same kind of censorship that keeps playboys out of elementary school libraries. Censorship in and of it self is not a bad thing, in fact its necessary to a cretin degree. The problem occurs when one controlling force is able to censor everything (total censorship), like the government banning a book, or a company like a ISP filtering out all negative press its getting to its users. Apple in this case is only modifying their own site, and there not using their devices to censor what reviews about their products people can access. It is your responsibility as a customer to independently review and evaluate a product before you buy it. There are many resources out there to assist with this, and the manufactures website should NEVER be considered the exclusive or conclusive source for this information. Free in this case means they are free to do as they wish to their site, not that you are free to post whatever you like to it. If you have an issue with this, start your own site/blog/form and post whatever you like to it. Just to reiterate, i am not an apple fanboi, i run ubuntu linux, and do not own nor would i consider purchasing any apple products.
So is the Bible a derivative work of the Torah, or the Qur'an? or is the Torah a derivative work of the Bible which is a derivative work of the Qur'an, which is a derivative work of the Torah?? zomg im so confused!
you are quite incorrect that this is "conceptual nonsense" what the AC is trying to describe is the coding equivalent of copying just about anything, lets take a car for example. The way they had it laid out was this: There are two teams one team has a car to look at (but not the blueprints, just the end product) and they get to examine the car and figure out how everything works, the other team has to put something together that works in a similar fashion, however they have no access to the car, they only have a basic understanding of the principals that make it work. When the construction team runs into a problem, they can ask the inspection team for help, but the inspection team can only give a general answer as to how to overcome the problem without letting the construction team see the car, or writing anything down (pictures, detailed descriptions, etc). The end result is something that's an original work (it was INSPIRED by the other car, but is not derivative of it)
btw the definition of derivative is as follows:
wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_work
A derivative work pertaining to copyright law, is an expressive creation that includes major, copyright-protected elements of an original, previously created first work. (which would infer direct copying of the code, or in the car analogy, casting the new parts from the parts on the car to be examined.)
and in case wikipedia is not a reliable enough source
ie the work has to be original, and non-trivial, both of these elements are missing from the case being argued about code, elf header's are trivial (in this day and age) and are hardly original, they are common to most all major intel (x86) OS'es in one form or another, Thus they do not qualify as "copyrightable" and even so they would have to be an exact line for line copy to be infringing. The work shown is hardly line for line, they show lines where they suggest code was copied and modified to look different, however this still precludes line for line. In the case of Compaq vs IBM there are not enough details to make the assessment, however as the AC has pointed out if either side felt it was infringing, its 100% certain that the code would have never seen the light of day either through Compaq's own internal audit process, or through a MAJOR lawsuit by IBM (which even then was a vastly wealthy and powerful company).
Um I'm on comcast here in Nashville, tn, i get 130+ channels digital, analog, everything, as long as its coming in "in the clear" i get it. Not all QAM is encrypted, just most of the additional stuff, the movie channels etc. That's not to say they WONT encrypt the stream, or that they don't fully encrypt it in some markets (iirc there not allowed to switch to 100% encryption until 2012), but at least here, and in every market ive been in on the east coast basic+expanded comes in "in the clear" over QAM... for now...
Not all digital channels are encrypted. A lot of basic+expanded is sent "in the clear" meaning its using QAM, but its unencrypted and accessable by and set capable of QAM conversion.
as of today i have a Flat panel LCD TV with a digital tuner that picks up channels 1-130ish just fine (on comcast's network), digital analog everything. As of 2012 this may change (and at that point this municipality may have to look at rewording their contract), but right now they should be able to receive QAM channels "in the clear" which is the equivalent of basic+expanded in most markets
yes where the disconnect is coming from is Comcast kindly offered to "rent" him the boxes at $3/month per box. He does not realize he can BUY D2A boxes off the shelf and save the rental fee. He is also upset that the box will consume power to convert the signal, as such he should upgrade the analog TV's to ones with built in digital tuners (which generally use LESS power than older TV's anyway), and save the cost of the D2A converters all together.
Well this could be seen as a breach of the agreement on comcast's part, which would then allow the town to open up to competition and find a different solution, however most cable co's are on "friendly terms" with each other and try not to step on the other company's toes regarding customer base...
Your argument to "save some money" is essentially fail. They stated they get the service for free. The only thing costing the tax payers anything here is the power to run the TV's which even without cable still use power as they would probably be viewing DVD's or VHS tapes etc... Ditching cable in this case wouldn't save any money at all...
I think the point here is he's getting it for free from Comcast due to a municipality agreement (probably for letting the cable co run the lines on the poles in the area). switching to another provider is not really an option as A. the agreement is for Comcast only, and B. all other providers (sat company's) require digital boxes for ALL TV's (there is no analog option). With that said, sat company's are more than happy to get large business customers that want a huge number of channels on a huge number of TV's (for the right price of course) and most of the providers no longer require a "Big Ugly Dish" and instead opt for the "Smaller Less Ugly Dish" although in some cases their more susceptible to "rain fade".
It sounds like the issue here is that the company is cutting off analog signal on the lines, so long as the tv's have digital tuners built in (or if you can purchase them separately) you should not need to rent Comcast's box @ $3/mo. As for the power requirements, deal with it, or buy new TV's with digital tuners built in. TV's already consume tons of power, a converter box is next to nothing compared to the display itself.
On a side note:
Im not sure about commercial settings, but in residential settings, anything affixed to your house, you own. the only thing the utilities own is the wire in the air/under ground running to your house. They like to pretend they own the wire on the house at times, but if its fixed to the home, its YOURS. I have been in the cable and satellite business for 2+ years as an installer. On another note, although not commonly used the size of the cable is sufficient description when referring to Coax line, although soft line cable (RG 58, RG 59, RG 6, RG 11) is better refereed to by the name (ie RG x) where as hard line can be refereed to by many different terms.
you missed his point (i agree with you though) he doesnt intend to "go after" the person who slandered him or is the source of the problem, only the person who wrongs him because of it, which is less crazy.... problem being in this day and age, a lot of people can believe one nut job, and wrong someone because of it.... thats a lot of people to "go after" to get shit straightened out! not to mention some of those people might be "un-touchable" or might not even believe that slander but have to omit/wrong the person because the slander EXISTS and they cant take a chance on their company/name losing credibility because the son of a uncle-horse rapists is now their CFO!
except that the person here isnt a "she" only pretending to be a female, and made suicide pacts with these "victims" to encourage them to do so. It could be argued that without this persons "advice" there people could very well be alive and happy. They were not terminally ill... there was no counseling to prove they were even clinically depressed... this person coerced these people into suicide for his own entertainment. I have a problem with someone doing something as deceitful and horrible as this.
i think the point is OLDER is a relative term, depending on who you talk to, its unreasonable to assume anything, either attach the question from all angles, or leave it be. the poster didn't specify how the hardware was setup, so assume it could be setup any way, from ISA to PCI-E and from shared system memory to dedicated VRAM, without knowing details, its a big task to properly answer the posters question...
in all of your examples you still have a pretty large chance that the data or documents within the safe are still intact and usable. Your only really left with the challenge of recovering the documents, which given time will sort itself out, as im sure between the police and building owners once the mess was cleaned up and sorted through, they would get you back your belongings (after of course crime lab etc decided it wasnt a key peice of evidence....) the only real issue is the time frame of getting it back. it could take weeks to months.... maybe even a year or two, if you also kept an off-site backup your buisness could be back up the very next day in some other office somewhere else running on your off-site backup you made the week before the fire, only having to recreate the data from the last week before the disaster.. which you would STILL have on file for legal records as soon as the safe was returned...
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i agree that the original GP's would make it worse, however if designed right, (ie the right length for the spectrum etc) it would not be hard to design an antenna which replaces the included one. The catch is to have the right length for the spectrum being used.
i think the GP is referring to RENTERS insurance which is a good idea if you have valuables in your home, however most policy's wont cover anything that wasn't in your home (IE stolen out of your car). You may want to check your policy though as it may be covered if the car was parked on the rental property or it may cover property in the car. OTOH Car insurance may cover it if you have full coverage, but most poor college students cant afford that anyway.
wiki: Burglary: Burglary (also called breaking and entering[1] and sometimes housebreaking)[2] is a crime, the essence of which is entry into a building for the purposes of committing an offence. Usually that offence will be theft, but most jurisdictions specify others which fall within the ambit of burglary. To commit a burglary is to burgle (in British English) or burglarize (in American English).[3] wordnetweb.princeton.edu (incase you dont trust a wiki) : entering a building unlawfully with intent to commit a felony or to steal valuable property. none of these mention anything "by cover of night" http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=burglarize proof that burglarized is a word (at least according to the university of Princeton) (also wiki lists it as a alternitive to Burglary. and i dont see how posting this ip would help his situation any (most likely it would just make it worse, people contacting the thief, or the thief taking measures to obscure the correct IP), your claim that he is "making shit up" is groundless and without merit. My Point: YOU sir, are a TROLL.
it seems like the issue is its shorting the antenna out (causing attenuation) rather than passing the signal through the case, most likely, even if a longer antenna was rigged up to the phone via this method, it would not improve reception at all... you would need to actually access the part of the PCB where the antenna solders on (or access part of the antenna directly (without grounding it out against the case or other components. Nice thought though... :D
just so you know TFA doesn't say they deleted ALL the threads, just lists several threads that they have deleted. This could well be a case of exactly what you say "If you're worried about too many threads have one main one. If you're worried about flames eliminate those posts." consolidating threads and eliminating mostly flame wars.
So, if a free market doesn't function unless people have access to all information available then you think "insider trading" is legal? And if you think its wrong for them to censor their site then you wouldn't have a problem with me coming by your house and spray painting your slashdot id on the side of it? or slapping a bumper sticker on your car proclaiming how much it pollutes the atmosphere. I don't like Apple, of their products, i don't even own a IPod, but it IS their server, they are not going to other discussion boards and trying to bury or erase any defamatory remarks. And since the threads in questions i cant verify it, but im willing to say that the most likely reason the threads were removed is because of vulgar speech and/or it had become nothing more than a flame war. Yes this is censorship, its the same kind of censorship that keeps playboys out of elementary school libraries. Censorship in and of it self is not a bad thing, in fact its necessary to a cretin degree. The problem occurs when one controlling force is able to censor everything (total censorship), like the government banning a book, or a company like a ISP filtering out all negative press its getting to its users. Apple in this case is only modifying their own site, and there not using their devices to censor what reviews about their products people can access. It is your responsibility as a customer to independently review and evaluate a product before you buy it. There are many resources out there to assist with this, and the manufactures website should NEVER be considered the exclusive or conclusive source for this information. Free in this case means they are free to do as they wish to their site, not that you are free to post whatever you like to it. If you have an issue with this, start your own site/blog/form and post whatever you like to it. Just to reiterate, i am not an apple fanboi, i run ubuntu linux, and do not own nor would i consider purchasing any apple products.
really? i just sent them to /dev/null
So is the Bible a derivative work of the Torah, or the Qur'an? or is the Torah a derivative work of the Bible which is a derivative work of the Qur'an, which is a derivative work of the Torah?? zomg im so confused!
you are quite incorrect that this is "conceptual nonsense" what the AC is trying to describe is the coding equivalent of copying just about anything, lets take a car for example. The way they had it laid out was this: There are two teams one team has a car to look at (but not the blueprints, just the end product) and they get to examine the car and figure out how everything works, the other team has to put something together that works in a similar fashion, however they have no access to the car, they only have a basic understanding of the principals that make it work. When the construction team runs into a problem, they can ask the inspection team for help, but the inspection team can only give a general answer as to how to overcome the problem without letting the construction team see the car, or writing anything down (pictures, detailed descriptions, etc). The end result is something that's an original work (it was INSPIRED by the other car, but is not derivative of it)
btw the definition of derivative is as follows:
wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_work A derivative work pertaining to copyright law, is an expressive creation that includes major, copyright-protected elements of an original, previously created first work. (which would infer direct copying of the code, or in the car analogy, casting the new parts from the parts on the car to be examined.)
and in case wikipedia is not a reliable enough source
http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/derivative-work.html Artistic or literary work derived from one or more existing works which, to be copyrightable, must contain sufficient element of originality that makes it a new work in its own right.
ie the work has to be original, and non-trivial, both of these elements are missing from the case being argued about code, elf header's are trivial (in this day and age) and are hardly original, they are common to most all major intel (x86) OS'es in one form or another, Thus they do not qualify as "copyrightable" and even so they would have to be an exact line for line copy to be infringing. The work shown is hardly line for line, they show lines where they suggest code was copied and modified to look different, however this still precludes line for line. In the case of Compaq vs IBM there are not enough details to make the assessment, however as the AC has pointed out if either side felt it was infringing, its 100% certain that the code would have never seen the light of day either through Compaq's own internal audit process, or through a MAJOR lawsuit by IBM (which even then was a vastly wealthy and powerful company).
My point is YOU are a TROLL.
Um I'm on comcast here in Nashville, tn, i get 130+ channels digital, analog, everything, as long as its coming in "in the clear" i get it. Not all QAM is encrypted, just most of the additional stuff, the movie channels etc. That's not to say they WONT encrypt the stream, or that they don't fully encrypt it in some markets (iirc there not allowed to switch to 100% encryption until 2012), but at least here, and in every market ive been in on the east coast basic+expanded comes in "in the clear" over QAM... for now...
Not all digital channels are encrypted. A lot of basic+expanded is sent "in the clear" meaning its using QAM, but its unencrypted and accessable by and set capable of QAM conversion.
as of today i have a Flat panel LCD TV with a digital tuner that picks up channels 1-130ish just fine (on comcast's network), digital analog everything. As of 2012 this may change (and at that point this municipality may have to look at rewording their contract), but right now they should be able to receive QAM channels "in the clear" which is the equivalent of basic+expanded in most markets
yes where the disconnect is coming from is Comcast kindly offered to "rent" him the boxes at $3/month per box. He does not realize he can BUY D2A boxes off the shelf and save the rental fee. He is also upset that the box will consume power to convert the signal, as such he should upgrade the analog TV's to ones with built in digital tuners (which generally use LESS power than older TV's anyway), and save the cost of the D2A converters all together.
Well this could be seen as a breach of the agreement on comcast's part, which would then allow the town to open up to competition and find a different solution, however most cable co's are on "friendly terms" with each other and try not to step on the other company's toes regarding customer base...
Your argument to "save some money" is essentially fail. They stated they get the service for free. The only thing costing the tax payers anything here is the power to run the TV's which even without cable still use power as they would probably be viewing DVD's or VHS tapes etc... Ditching cable in this case wouldn't save any money at all...
I think the point here is he's getting it for free from Comcast due to a municipality agreement (probably for letting the cable co run the lines on the poles in the area). switching to another provider is not really an option as A. the agreement is for Comcast only, and B. all other providers (sat company's) require digital boxes for ALL TV's (there is no analog option). With that said, sat company's are more than happy to get large business customers that want a huge number of channels on a huge number of TV's (for the right price of course) and most of the providers no longer require a "Big Ugly Dish" and instead opt for the "Smaller Less Ugly Dish" although in some cases their more susceptible to "rain fade".
It sounds like the issue here is that the company is cutting off analog signal on the lines, so long as the tv's have digital tuners built in (or if you can purchase them separately) you should not need to rent Comcast's box @ $3/mo. As for the power requirements, deal with it, or buy new TV's with digital tuners built in. TV's already consume tons of power, a converter box is next to nothing compared to the display itself.
On a side note: Im not sure about commercial settings, but in residential settings, anything affixed to your house, you own. the only thing the utilities own is the wire in the air/under ground running to your house. They like to pretend they own the wire on the house at times, but if its fixed to the home, its YOURS. I have been in the cable and satellite business for 2+ years as an installer. On another note, although not commonly used the size of the cable is sufficient description when referring to Coax line, although soft line cable (RG 58, RG 59, RG 6, RG 11) is better refereed to by the name (ie RG x) where as hard line can be refereed to by many different terms.
second... more details please!
Now when will we get scanners that can email scanned documents automatically?
smeg-head* there i fixed it for you
you missed his point (i agree with you though) he doesnt intend to "go after" the person who slandered him or is the source of the problem, only the person who wrongs him because of it, which is less crazy.... problem being in this day and age, a lot of people can believe one nut job, and wrong someone because of it.... thats a lot of people to "go after" to get shit straightened out! not to mention some of those people might be "un-touchable" or might not even believe that slander but have to omit/wrong the person because the slander EXISTS and they cant take a chance on their company/name losing credibility because the son of a uncle-horse rapists is now their CFO!
so you also take issue with liable and slander laws as well? their put in place to help protect innocent people....
except that the person here isnt a "she" only pretending to be a female, and made suicide pacts with these "victims" to encourage them to do so. It could be argued that without this persons "advice" there people could very well be alive and happy. They were not terminally ill... there was no counseling to prove they were even clinically depressed... this person coerced these people into suicide for his own entertainment. I have a problem with someone doing something as deceitful and horrible as this.
i think the point is OLDER is a relative term, depending on who you talk to, its unreasonable to assume anything, either attach the question from all angles, or leave it be. the poster didn't specify how the hardware was setup, so assume it could be setup any way, from ISA to PCI-E and from shared system memory to dedicated VRAM, without knowing details, its a big task to properly answer the posters question...
in all of your examples you still have a pretty large chance that the data or documents within the safe are still intact and usable. Your only really left with the challenge of recovering the documents, which given time will sort itself out, as im sure between the police and building owners once the mess was cleaned up and sorted through, they would get you back your belongings (after of course crime lab etc decided it wasnt a key peice of evidence....) the only real issue is the time frame of getting it back. it could take weeks to months.... maybe even a year or two, if you also kept an off-site backup your buisness could be back up the very next day in some other office somewhere else running on your off-site backup you made the week before the fire, only having to recreate the data from the last week before the disaster.. which you would STILL have on file for legal records as soon as the safe was returned...